Thank You Ma Am By Langston Hughes Essay

The Charleston attacks and Thank You, Ma’am by Langston Hughes have similar ideas conveying the main idea that regardless of background or personal image, people may not always be who they seem to be. Your personal image and ego can be different than what your emotions and feelings convey. In the Charleston attacks many people who were believed to be ordinary American’s crossed over the line and really showed who they were, whether it was hating on and degrading another race or embracing and showing love to others. In Langston Hughes, Thank You, Ma’am the narrator talks about a boy named Roger who is embraced by a woman named Mrs. Luella Bates although the boy originally tried to rob her. Hughes writes, “Then we’ll eat, said the woman, I

Later in the poem Mrs, Luella Bates talks about her past life being quite similar to the boy’s, and instead of lecturing the poor boy she embraces his hardships. Hughes later writes, “When they were finished eating she got up and said, Now, here, take this ten dollars and buy yourself some blue suede shoes. And next time, do not make the mistake of latching onto my pocketbook nor nobody else’s...”. This is part of the poem is as important as any other regardless of it being towards the end of the poem because it shows sympathy and compassion from Mrs, Luella Bates instead of hatred. This quotation relates to the Charleston church attack because it shows that people have the ability to have different emotions regardless of their image or social stature. The New York Times writes, “Dylann s Roof, a self radicalized young white supremacist who killed nine black parishioners last year when he opened fire during a long-planned assault on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church”. This excerpt from the New York Time relates to Langston Hughes poem because it shows just about anybody can feel and have different emotions than what their personal image conveys. It talks about Dylann being young and self radicalized white supremacist which shows us that